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Just got home from the cardiologist - they forced bubbles into my heart while watching...the result? bubbles came in and went out where they were supposed to. The titanium they put into my heart has fully healed and closed up my heart - essentially creating a fully functioning heart for the first time in my life!
Its crazy and we are thankful. It's wrapping up this 5 month journey since my stroke. I also have had zero migraines since the heart surgery which the cardiologist said could happen. Research has been coming out that migraine and this heart operation and strokes are all correlated. #gamechanger
Sitting here a few hours later I am recollecting this last year and am blown away at just how good God has been in His leadership. Going back to February last year He invited our family to begin praying that God would restore the heart of the city of Tulsa. As we prayed...He faithfully begin convicting us of all the places that our own hearts needed restored back to Him, as we begin repenting, He showed me via a stroke that I had a physical hole in my heart...who knew...
Then in January the Lord dropped 1 Peter 5:10 on us as a road map to partner with Him in what He is doing in us. It says:
10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
While He has been restoring us all year, we sense that this picture is an accurate summation of the confirmation process of the Lord. You can see robyn and I leaving the heart center, carrying the news that I have just been fully healed while rocking my Antioch Tulsa hat...
It's like He did what He said He is doing, and will continue to do it in Tulsa...
Im pretty overwhelmed...honored...thankful and ready to launch into this next season
thanks for being in it with me
I’ll drop some pics of the house later
Be vigorous and aware of your connection to heaven
#readirbible
Mark 4 on tap for my soul
Reading proverbs 17.3 this morning. My hearts motives will get put out before the Lord to be judged...someday? Sure sure we will all stand before a judgement seat - in the meantime we exist in the today.
Just how much do we really want our motives to be seen and known? To a degree, we can add some churchy language to situations in our lives and make everything seem dandy - try and manage or control the externals around us so that people around us have the idea that we have great lives. And we will all see just how long we can hold that up...
But really whats the driver in your soul. And how will that end? Is it monies? health? reputation? Trying to work out the grind of life so that I feel secure, satisfying my internal need for whatever the thing is.
A free heart has no need for external validation, no need to be proven, it experiences the fire of life and is out on display come what may. Its proof of trust in a God that is in control.
Check proverbs 17.3
Then check out Phil 2. ...
a pretty good indicator of your thoughts and attitudes getting the day going.
That first thing, first word could be to a family member, a text, an email, a co worker, the coffee barista...irregardless take a moment and look at it.
Most of us, myself included have some sort of routine greeting informed by our experiences, culture, friends around us - its generally trite, creating minimal connection, and continues us on our day.
My invitation is to spend that moment with intention and allow Hebrews 3:1-14 to guide you. That first word could be so much more...
The author is giving a recount of the Israelites allowing their hardness to be. He runs the hardening through the redemption of hope in Christ, and then challenges us to understand we are no different than the Israelites apart from Christ.
And then verse 13...the solid therefore. take a moment and read it.
The exhortation is not a trite you can do it, but a calling of the reminder of the hope in the Cross, the person of Jesus, the ...
